The ATM is building lobby is not working. This annoys me verily.
I am also very sneezy and in need of Claritan D, which I don’t have because you have to show your Driver’s License and sign for because its a controlled substance, or whatever the Drug Czars have classified it. These are the little regulations that people brush off as “not a big deal,” as in “I’m not doing anything wrong, so I’m not worried about the store/state/government having these records. Sure its a little inconvenient, but what’s the big deal?” but are, to me, prime examples of a way in which our personal liberty is slowly chipped away. Blah, blah, blah Libertarian Conspiracy Theory.
In my ideal world, there is no FDA (or it exists, but is very, very tiny, and you have a choice to buy things that are not FDA approved at your own risk) and every controlled or illegal substance is now legal.
This segues nicely into the “because I hold these opinions, I really, really need to get this Libertarian fellowship.”
I find out this week if I get a phone interview. I don’t know if they’ll tell me if I didn’t get it. I would hope so, but that generally does not happen. I’m going to obsessively reload my email all week.
Also, the theme of October is “spend way too much money.” Clothes. Shoes. Hair straigtener-that-actually-magically-straightens-my-hair (a feat that every hair dresser I have been to has failed to accomplish once my hair gets past chin length). Oh and the Tomato Nation/Donors Choose Challenge of course. The way to get me to open my wallet to charity is to introduce a competition aspect. Ayn Rand might even be proud!
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I will keep my fingers crossed for you in hopes that you get that phone interview!
..I think the theme of October is “spend way too much money” for me too… ugh. lol if only I could win the lottery..
October 26th, 2009 at 8:31 amSays:
I get very VERY angry about the pseudoephedrine behind the counter. *I* do not use or manufacture methamphetamine, so why should *I* have to give my information to some shadowy people fighting some sort of “drug war”? I just want to prevent a freaking sinus infection!!
[Don't even get me started on the FDA. It's too big & in charge of too much to really accomplish anything. If we need to have regulatory agencies, they should be small enough to actually effect change. (I'm not really a libertarian exactly, so I'd probably be okay with separate Food/Drug/Consumer products organizations. I do want someone checking to make sure there's no melamine in my dog's food. But I understand your point, is what I'm sayin'.)]
The pseudoephedrine nonsense did lead me to look to alternative treatments for sinus problems, which led me to discover my beloved neti pot. Seriously, I heart it so much. Once I got over the ickiness factor, it changed my life.
October 26th, 2009 at 9:58 amSays:
Waiting is such a hard place to be. I’m with you in the great Waiting Room of Life lately on things. I, too, have suffered from the refreshing e-mail syndrome. It’s not fun.
Hopefully some good news will come this week for you. Maybe even for me, too.
October 26th, 2009 at 1:24 pm